The Kaleidoscope; or, Literary and Scientific Mirror/Series 2/Volume 4/Number 198/The Housewife
The Housewife.
“Housekeeping and husbandry, if it be good,
Must love one another as cousins in blood:
The wife, too, must husband as well as the man,
Or farewell thy husbandry, do what thou can.”
Preserving Vinegar for Domestic Purposes.—Cork it up in glass bottles, set them on the fire with cold water, and as much hay or straw as will prevent them from knocking together; when the water nearly boils, take off the pan, and let the bottles remain in the lees a quarter of an hour. Vinegar thus prepared never loses its virtue, though kept many years, or occasionally left uncovered, and is peculiarly suitable for pickles.
To clean Plated Articles.—Take an ounce of killed quicksilver, and half a pound of the best whitening, sifted; mix them with spirits of wine when used.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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